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Medieval to modern suburban material culture and sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge : archaeological investigations of an eleventh- to twentieth-century suburb and town ditch / [edited] by Craig Cessford and Alison Dickens ; with contributions by Martin Allen [and 21 others] ; with a foreword by Martin Biddle ; graphics by Vicki Herring with Andrew Hall ; principal photography by Craig Cessford and Dave Webb.
LIBRA DA690.C2 M43 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McDonald Institute monographs
- Cambridge archaeological unit urban archaeology series ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Cambridge.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Suburbs--England--Cambridge--History.
- Suburbs.
- Antiquities.
- History.
- Cambridge (England)--Antiquities.
- Cambridge (England).
- England--Cambridge.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 474 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, [2019]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / A. Dickens
- Circumstances and background
- Previous archaeological investigations
- Grand Arcade and related developments
- Structure and organization
- Inset: Some doorways and windows to the past
- Site sequence
- Starting at the end
- ch. 2 Preludes: prehistoric to early twelfth century / C. Cessford
- Space not place
- Prehistoric-mid-eleventh century
- Mid/late eleventh century
- Early twelfth century
- Discussion
- ch. 3 The Kings Ditch: from Anarchy to alleyway / C. Cessford
- Previous investigations
- Circumambulating the King's Ditch
- The King's Ditch sequence
- Early/mid-twelfth century
- Late twelfth-mid-fifteenth century
- Inset: Bridging the divide
- Late fifteenth-late seventeenth century
- Late eighteenth-early twenty-first century
- ch. 4 The early suburb: mid-twelfth to sixteenth century / C. Cessford
- Mid-late twelfth century
- Archaeological remains
- Wells
- Case study 1 Well 5
- Cesspits
- Buildings
- Gullies
- Pits
- Case study 2 Pit 5
- Garden soil
- Thirteenth-fourteenth centuries
- The documented plots / C. Cessford
- Case study 3 Well 32
- Water-filled-features
- Case study 4 Water filled features 3
- 5
- Ovens
- Animal disposal pits
- Specialized pits
- Surfaces
- Fifteenth-sixteenth centuries
- Case study 5 Well 38
- Water-filled features
- Case Study 6 Water-filled feature 11
- Specialised pits
- Material culture
- Jettons / M. Allen
- Metalwork and metalworking / S. Timberlake
- Worked stone / C. Cessford
- Pottery / C. Cessford
- Ceramic building material / A. Vince
- Worked bone / L. Higbee
- Stone mouldings / K. Hayward
- Wood and timber / I. Tyers
- Leatherwork / Q. Mould
- Miscellaneous materials / C. Cessford
- Economic and environmental data
- Mammal and bird bone / L. Higbee
- Fish bone / J. Harland
- Plant macrofossils / A. de Vareilles
- Insects / D. Smith
- Pollen / S. Boreham
- ch. 5 From suburb to shopping centre: seventeenth to twenty-first century / A. Dickens
- Seventeenth century
- Plot IX
- Plot X/Plot XI
- Case study 7 Cesspit 16
- Plot XII
- Plot XIII
- Plots XIV
- XIX
- Case study 8 Well 42
- Plot XXII
- Eighteenth century
- Plots I
- VII
- Plot VIII
- Plot X(incorporating Plot XI
- Plot XIV
- Case study 9 Pit 57
- Plot XV
- Plot XVI
- Plot XVII
- Plot XVIII
- Plots XIX
- XXI
- Case study 10 Well 46
- Nineteenth century
- Plot X
- Case study 11 Well 52
- Case study 12 The backfilling of Soakaway 3
- Plot XIX
- Plot XX
- Twentieth century
- The Robert Sayle department store
- Inset: Living above the shop and other stories
- Coins and jettons / M. Allen
- Metalwork / A. Hall
- Vessel glass / V. Herring
- Pottery / D. Hall
- Clay tobacco pipes / A. Vince
- Wood and timber / S. Allen
- ch. 6 Wider environs / R. Newman
- The Barnwell Gate suburb
- St Andrew the Great
- South of Downing Street
- Christ's College
- The Christ's Lane development
- Emmanuel College
- Inset: Reading names and signs at No. 21 / C. Cessford
- The agricultural hinterland
- One suburb among many
- ch. 7 Coda / C. Cessford
- Temporality and biography
- Suburban archaeology
- Inset: Peripheral biographies
- Property tail archaeology
- A millennium of change
- Age, gender and more esoteric agencies
- The archaeology of modernity
- The local and the global
- Town versus gown
- Odd deposits and average practice
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-467) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781902937786
- 1902937783
- OCLC:
- 1121103941
- Publisher Number:
- 99987679706
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